On 28/03/2008, Walt L. Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Where can I find more information on "apt-get"? More that the small > PDF that I have already downloaded. Will it do a search for applications > using key words? I installed KDE by completely de-installing Gnome and > then installing KDE and what ever bits of Gnome it needed for the > applications I chose. > > Also I believe there is a way to get Debian to update itself online? > Any pointer where to find documentation on this? > > > Walt > > Hey, apt-get is part of a suite of apt tools. There is an apt howto guide on the debian website here[1]. For me the two most used commands are `apt-cache search $querystring` and `apt-get install $packagename`. If you're after something a little more user friendly but still CLI try `aptitude`. It is a frontend for apt, is installed by default and seems to have better documentation than apt. Running `aptitude` will open a screen-like session allowing you to browse and install packages. '?' for help, 'q' to quit. Many other commands are vi-like: '/' to search 'n/N' for repeat search forwards/backwards 'j/k' for up/down. With commandline args apitude can provide similar functionality to apt-get though there are some discrepencies[2] Moving into X frontends there is Synaptic and KPackage which are intuitively point and click.
cheers, Owen. [1]http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ [2] try `apt-get moo` vs `aptitude moo` :)
